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Immune Reactions and Immunosuppressant Drugs

Glucocorticoids - Inhibition of cytokine synthesis, e.g., IL-1, IL-2
Muromonab-CD3 - Monoclonal antibody
Calcineurin
Reactions and Immunosuppressant ... Mycophenolate mofetil #Immunosuppressant
Cyclosporine - common immunosuppressant for transplant rejection prevention.  Originally isolated from fungi in the 1970's.

#Pharmacology
Cyclosporine - common immunosuppressant
Myocarditis
Diagnosis 
• Endomyocardial biopsy (gold standard, rarely performed) 
• Clinical presentation 
• Cardiovascular MRI 
Clinical 
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myocarditis) • Immunosuppressants
Management of Acute Tubulointerstitial Nephritis (aka Acute Interstitial Nephritis). Simplified management algorithm for investigation and treatment
corticosteroids and other immunosuppressants
Drugs associated with hypokalemia and hypomagnesemia

Hypokalemia
- Shift from extracellular fluid to intracellular fluid compartment
  -
inhibitors - Immunosuppressants
Major Clinical Trials and Evidence Summary for Transfusion Thresholds in Critical Care

TRICC - NEJM 1999 -
Transfusions are immunosuppressants
Proposed algorithm for choice of therapy or disease monitoring in sarcoidosis.
Anti-inflammatory therapy:
 • Prednisolone
 • Prednisolone
Prednisolone + immunosuppressant
Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH)
Pathophysiology: Triggering factor (infection,...)→Activation of CD8 T cells (IFN-y) → Excessive activation of macrophages
Infection under immunosuppressants
Myasthenia Gravis - Summary
 • an autoimmune disease of the postsynaptic neuromuscular junction associated with antibodies
• The immunosuppressant
Myasthenia Gravis Overview

Myasthenia Gravis is an autoimmune disorder of the postsynaptic neuromuscular junction.  Ab to
childbirth, tapering of immunosuppressants